Chapter 23 I'll take you to see my body buried in the back hills
Li Ziyue looked at him deeply, didn't answer immediately, just smiled.
He seemed to have heard some big joke: "Guilt?"
"Are you going to use psychological warfare on me?" Li Ziyue said with a wry smile, "Why does everyone think so highly of me?"
"It's like I have to sacrifice myself for others, and when I see someone die I have to kneel down and condemn myself."
There was a strange look in his eyes, the color of his pupils became darker, and his thick and long eyelashes trembled.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, seemingly smiling, but his eyes showed no kindness at all.
"He forced me to give him the blanket. You heard him say that if I didn't agree, he would kill me." His tone was light, with a hint of inhuman laziness, "What can I do?"
"If no one steps up to put out the fire, all the players will die. Someone has to step up to put out the fire. Someone will die because of this."
"It's true that I'm a bad person," Li Ziyue looked down at him, "What about you? Didn't you deliberately seduce me?"
His eyebrows curved up, as if he was smiling.
"What about the others who pretended to compete with him for this mission?"
"Why, I am the only one feeling guilty, don't you feel guilty too?"
Ji Mingyun stared at Li Ziyue expressionlessly.
His pupils were larger than those of most people. At the moment, his eyes were gloomy, his eyelashes drooped, and the shadows made his eyes darker, like two bottomless black holes.
Facing Li Ziyue's provocation, he said without any context, "I know."
Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows and looked at him, but said nothing.
You said something like this without any reason. Who can know what you know?
Ji Mingyun laughed contemptuously, as if he had found something to hold against Li Ziyue, and said meaningfully, "Even if your hands were clean before, it won't be long before your hands are covered in blood."
Li Ziyue's heartbeat suddenly quickened.
Could it be that he...
The expression on his face remained unchanged.
"I've killed so many people," Li Ziyue smiled with narrowed eyes, "Do you want me to take you to see the bodies I buried in the back hills a few days ago?"
…
Li Ziyue was holding a half-dead light green plant seedling in his hand.
This thing looks strange. At first glance, it looks like a weed that can be found everywhere, but its roots are extremely slender, numerous and messy, with densely packed thorns on them. Touching it gives a slight tingling sensation like an electric shock.
And this is not the strangest thing. The really weird thing is that it seems to be able to move independently like a human, and it has a pair of round eyes in the middle that blink slowly.
At this moment, it lay quietly in Li Ziyue's palm, staring at him.
The old woman who was almost burned into a homeless villager by the fire was holding a handkerchief and crying to the player: "There is no other way. We have to grow crops even in drought. If we don't grow crops, everyone will die."
Hearing this, Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows unconsciously.
The old woman's last sentence seems normal, but it actually doesn't make sense for human speech.
Crops are for eating. Not growing crops will directly lead to people starving to death. Most people would say, "If we don't grow crops, everyone will starve to death." They would not deliberately omit the word "starved."
Everyone will die? How? Isn't it just... starving to death?
Several villagers wearing yellow straw hats walked among the players. They were thin, their skin tanned by the scorching sun, their backs bulged due to hunger, their bones were clearly visible, and their skin stuck loosely to them, like soulless zombies.
They also held a few plant seedlings in their hands, and in their other hands they weakly held sharp tools like sickles, and they were walking slowly forward with their backs hunched.
Sweat dripped onto the dry yellow soil and was quickly swallowed up.
Li Ziyue opened the system task notification he had just received.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Who's on the Plate" side quest]
[Mission Difficulty: One Star (It is very convenient to kill people with a hoe, but it is not easy to plow the land with a hoe~)]
[Task requirements: Plant seedlings must be buried in the soil before sunset. Whether they are buried correctly will be determined by the system. Players can choose any piece of land in the village to cultivate.]
[Task Reward: 100 points (Friendly reminder, this is a team task. If someone cheats, everyone may suffer a catastrophic disaster when night falls)]
As soon as the mission was released, some players started cursing: "What the hell? Why do I have to work as a farmer to cultivate the land after entering the dungeon?"
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Without tilling the land, how can we get food?"
"That's right. It's better than being chased by a group of weird NPCs as soon as you step into the dungeon. What's wrong with farming? I love farming. There's nothing shameful in using labor to survive."
However, the players soon stopped laughing.
The land ecology here is really too bad. The long-term drought has made the ground full of dust that cannot gather. The soil below is as hard as steel. After being hit a few times by a sharp tool, the tip of the tool bent, and the soil was only dented by a fingernail-sized hole.
Even if a strong man dug a hole that could accommodate the plant seedlings, the next problem would arise - if the loose soil is not moistened with water, the plant seedlings would not be able to stand up and the system would not judge them as passed.
To sum up, this task seems simple, but it actually requires much more effort than people imagine.
Due to the huge consumption of physical energy, the shortage of water resources and the high temperature of nearly 39°C, players' bodies will suffer varying degrees of damage.
Some people have begun to feel dizzy, weak in the limbs, and lean against the hot wall to rest.
The wall of loess burned half of his body into an unhealthy pink, but he seemed unaware of it.
Li Ziyue, who usually likes to finish his tasks first, is now strolling around the village leisurely.
It's not that he is not in a hurry. Time is a soft condition of this task. Although he doesn't know what will happen if the player fails to complete this task, Li Ziyue feels that it is still worth listening to the system's reminders occasionally.
However, sometimes you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
It is clear at a glance how this task is accomplished—hoe the soil and then water it.
But the system indicates that the land can be chosen at will, which may be a hint of change - although it cannot be seen at present, there should be some relatively soft land.
The above is only the first reason, he moves around, and there is also the second reason which is related to himself.
There are several key points in the scene where he "kills".
Who was killed? A woman in red (small body, with a silver hairpin on her head).
When? A rainy night.
Where is it? It looks like a temple. There is a big Buddha next to the woman in red. There is a window behind her and you can hear the sound of a bell.
Based on the above, the key points are summarized and refined: woman in red (small, with silver hairpin), rain, night, temple, Buddha statue, window behind, and ringing bells.
If you want to prevent him from accidentally "killing someone", you need to find out the reasons why he gets into "killing" situations and then avoid them one by one.
However, after looking around the houses, Li Ziyue realized that the inexplicable weirdness that this village brought to him was not groundless.
It seemed that there were only adults in the village. There were no children and no daily necessities for children. Occasionally, there was a crack in a house, and Li Ziyue would go forward to check it out.
No.
All the children in the village seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
This phenomenon is definitely abnormal in real life, but it is not uncommon in infinite flow copies, so it is not enough to scare Li Ziyue.
But combined with his extra tasks, it's strange.
Blood was flowing, and the petite woman in red fell beside the big Buddha. Her body curled up into a small ball. The size was not that of a normal girl, so she should be a child.
But where did the child come from?
Li Ziyue frowned slightly.
Is he wrong?
Probably not.
Li Ziyue stood in front of a big door, looking at the half-rotten wooden sign "XX Hope Primary School" hanging on the top. He narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his foot and walked in, but suddenly stopped when he took the second step.
"Ji Mingyun." He called out coldly.
Ji Mingyun's eyes flickered: "Why, are you the only one who can come to this place?"
"No," Li Ziyue smiled kindly, "I just called you, why are you so nervous?"
Ji Mingyun ignored his joke and said, "I'm not nervous, someone else is nervous."
Li Ziyue pretended to be deaf and dumb, and Ji Mingyun added fuel to the fire: "You didn't follow the crowd and came here secretly. Are you going to do something shameful?"
"Yes." As the saying goes, people with thick skin are popular everywhere. Li Ziyue said seriously along with his words.
"Then why did you follow me? Do you want to see me do something shameful, or do you want to do something shameful to me?" He replied lightly, "People's hearts are hidden in their stomachs. What I fear most is you gay men."
Ji Mingyun's face turned paler as he was talked about. Under the strong sunlight, his eye sockets were dark and for a moment he looked like a paper man standing in the underworld.
Before he could say anything, Li Ziyue walked away on his own.
This village is poor, and the Hope Primary School is poorly built, with only a shabby earthen gate. After entering, you can see a flag-raising platform without a flag hanging on it. The iron pole is broken in the middle and falls right in front of the door of the only classroom in the school.
Due to the severe shortage of teachers, students of different ages are crammed into one class and taught by one teacher at the same time.
Some are in fifth grade, and some have just started learning pinyin. Li Ziyue was slightly dazed as he looked at the homework of each grade written on the blackboard.
The fingertips rubbed against the rough blackboard wall, scraping off a piece of white chalk dust, and the fingertips finally stopped at a certain date - June 3, 2X23.
Three months ago.
The classroom is not small, but there are quite a lot of desks, squeezed from the front to the back corner, which means there are quite a few students, but why haven't I seen any so far?
There were children three months ago, where did they go? What happened to make the children disappear from the village?
This was not the problem that Li Ziyue wanted to worry about. If there really was no child, then what about the woman in red who was about to "die" in his hands...
Ji Mingyun didn't seem to have anything to do. He just followed Li Ziyue and watched how Li Ziyue acted.
This person is also strange.
Li Ziyue acted as if he didn't exist and searched in his desk.
There were still yellowed straw paper and a Zhonghua brand 2B pencil that was only half a finger long, with gray-black eraser crumbs hidden in the cracks.
Next to it is a broken window. Even spiders cannot survive here. Only thick yellow sand remains on the broken glass. Occasionally, when a heat wave blows, the wind and sand will blow into people's eyes, making them cry.
Li Ziyue coughed a few times, wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes due to physiological reaction, and raised his eyes to the window.
Outside the window was a flat loess field without any crops. It looked no different from other places in the village.
However……
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
He pulled out a stool with a missing leg and sat on it very smoothly. Then he took out the required questions from his backpack and started to write slowly.
Ji Mingyun, who was standing aside, finally had a human expression on his face: "You are really a weird person. The sun is about to set and you have already started doing your homework."
"Well," Li Ziyue said seriously, "this village is poor, and the infrastructure is backward. It's not certain whether there is lighting at night. If I don't write now, when will I write?"
He muttered: "The word 'hoe' appears three times in the article. Please analyze what its function is..."
"How should I analyze it?" He said speechlessly, "A hoe is a hoe. In addition to being used to plow the land, it can also be used to kill people. It can also be used to..."
Ji Mingyun really didn't know how this person's brain was working. He was clearly asked what role the hoe played in the text, but he was thinking about the actual use of the hoe... Moreover, using it to kill people? Can it be written in the answer book as an answer? !
He looked Li Ziyue up and down, with an expression that was hard to describe.
Li Ziyue naturally knew what Ji Mingyun was thinking. He didn't have to do his homework now, he just needed to wait.
Waiting for sunset to verify his previous guess.
Although the air was still hot, the sun was not as strong as it was at noon. Half of the sunlight in the classroom was blocked, and the wall at the back was gradually submerged in twilight.
Time is running out, it's almost evening.
The more Li Zi rubbed the sore back of his head, the tighter his throat became. Now swallowing saliva felt as painful as swallowing a knife.
The air is too dry and people are already showing symptoms of dehydration.
He raised his eyes and put away his homework, but saw that there seemed to be something new in the dim corner behind him.
You can vaguely see several black-framed circles with some other colors around them, mixed in with the brown and yellow soil, making it difficult to see clearly.
When he got closer and took a look, Li Ziyue's breathing suddenly stopped, and the memory of the previous copy instantly flooded into his mind.
Where are the circles?
That was clearly a person who had hanged himself.
In places without sunlight, there are densely packed painted human heads, with short hair, pigtails, mushroom-shaped hairstyles... with tiny heads and broken bodies.
All dead children.
They either lowered their heads, or occasionally raised their heads, and their faces were strangely blurry.
As the sunlight sank, flesh and blood gradually appeared on the wall, but there were no bones. It was just a pile of flesh, one lump after another. Although it was human flesh, it was very dry, as if all the blood had been sucked out by some kind of vampire creature.
It's also like the bacon hung on the balcony waiting to dry during the Chinese New Year.
A strange smell came out of the meat, becoming stronger and stronger, pungent and irritating to the eyes. Li Ziyue moved his gaze to the window.
really.
The flat ground outside the window was now covered with cracks, and some white objects quietly protruded out, pushing the soil away.
The light in the house became worse, but the temperature did not drop at all. The rotten meat on the wall floated in the air, blocking people's nasal cavity.
Ji Mingyun frowned imperceptibly.
But he heard Li Ziyue say, "Later, the child on the wall will reach out his hand to grab you, and then cry to you, howl at you, and say to you, 'It hurts, please save me'..."
Ji Mingyun's movements paused noticeably, his breathing became irregular, and just as he was about to speak, Li Ziyue had already climbed over the wall and reached the flat ground outside.
The previous words were all fabricated. Li Ziyue just didn't like Ji Mingyun watching him like a criminal, so he just said some random words to scare him.
Ji Mingyun is not very old and it seems that he has not been involved in infinite dungeons. He has a lot of skills but no experience. It is most interesting to play psychological warfare on him.
After all the commotion, Li Ziyue did not forget his main business.
He bent down and broke open the cracked soil under his feet. However, when he saw the object buried underneath, his movements froze in a rare way.
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